Strategic & Business Planning Resources

This is the website of American magazine Fast Company. It includes articles about innovative business and marketing strategies. Use the search function to search on a topic or the resource centres (in the left bar) for related topical articles.

Sometimes it is difficult to see how what a textbook describes actually happens. At this website, Erica Olsen, author of Strategic Planning for Dummies presents a series of practical videos on creating the strategic plan by standing at a whiteboard and visually and verbally presenting a range of strategic planning processes.

Business Plans tend to be sensitive documents. However, many organisations have made their Business Plans available on the Internet. Bplans.com contains a large number of examples of Business Plans. The link above is to Bplans.com (a website of Palo Alto Software, publishers of business planning software).